Meta Horror Movies
"The Blackening," "Scream" and More Meta Horror Movies
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"Peeping Tom," released in 1960, is considered one of the first meta horror movies. In it, a serial killer stalks and kills women. He has a video camera with him the whole time and records the kills and the aftermath of each one. He even screens some of the films for his future victims. The movie is considered a classic of the slasher genre and also a commentary of the genre itself and audience's desire to watch people be killed on screens at all.